I will be heading to FA BOLC this summer. Does anybody have any advice or humorous anecdotes they are willing to share?

Don't be stupid, seriously! It's statically the second hardest BOLC behind AVN. I think there are approx. 25 graded tasks/ assignments not counting HW. It's still an Army school though and there is no reason for anyone with a bachelors degree to fail, but some will. Find solid LTs to do your HW with and take advantage of all extra study time offered by instructors.

Firstly, be prepared for gunnery. A whole lot of interpolations involved. Take safety seriously or you will end up in a world of hurt since this the game you must pass to become a field artillery officer. Also, ensure you are physically fit since there is a lot of physical requirements involved, especially rucks. Do keen observation in class and find a good study group of students who are doing well since there is a lot of homework, lots of late nights so be ready. Take very well organized notes and pay attention to detail and you will be set. Im sure there may be other stuff like making sure you have everything on the packing list for class from day one but I sure you will figure it out. Hope this helps and good luck.

Cadet Simpson - it has been a very long time since I attended OBC at Fort Sill, but I would concur with CPT Hunt, take it seriously and put the time in on the course work. This is the knowledge that will make you a success at your first assignment. Your leadership at your first Battery/Battalion won't expect you to be a perfect leader but they will expect you to have the technical expertise.

I attended FABOLC in 2010-2011, and not being a math person really struggled. Most nights you left class around 1730 and had homework that often took hours to complete. PT was 0600 the next morning. Very difficult school for me personally, but you'll make lifelong friendships.

CPT (Join to see) -- I went to FA BOLC in its inaugural year back in 2006-2007 time period. Lawton, OK is no fun -- not much to do at all, and the few options you do have (there are like 3 decent dive bars in the whole city) make it easy to get yourself into trouble. So definitely don't do anything dumb to get yourself caught up. FA BOLC is not very difficult if you just focus and do what you're supposed to do. You will learn a lot of things that are useful -- and you will learn other things that are frankly a waste of your time and not even the cadre believe it's worth knowing. But that's how the Army can be. I do have some humorous anecdotes but no way I am going to post them here ;-)

Gunnery...... They make it hard, just basic algebra. Youll love it.

Back in 2008, the commandant pulled us new LTs in and gave a presentation of all the dumb stuff our predecessors did. There were NDs with personal weapons, one guy passed out drunk in his car at a Taco Bell parking lot, and Officers getting taken advantage of by the local Lawtonians (you'll know them when you see them). Stay out of trouble and concentrate on your studies. You should be fine.

spend as much time at scooters as you can. The beer is only 0.035%, so either drink a lot or figure out which microbrews that are fully staffed that your local bar / liquor store offers

Drink water. Nothing to do in Lawton. Beautiful country. Take time to run from Quad to Geronimo's grave. It was a blast. FA OBC Class 04-95 Grad here.